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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/...e_code=1.wU4.iT8F.4ePBWCfCIdrG&smid=url-share
...a promising new study shows that weight-loss surgery could reduce the chances of severe complications, even in some patients with cirrhosis.
In the study, published in Nature Medicine, researchers looked at data on patients with obesity and cirrhosis related to an advanced form of fatty liver disease called metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis, or MASH. Obesity is one of the major risk factors for MASH. At the 15-year mark, patients who had bariatric surgery were 72 percent less likely to have developed major complications like liver cancer than similar patients who didn’t have surgery....
...a promising new study shows that weight-loss surgery could reduce the chances of severe complications, even in some patients with cirrhosis.
In the study, published in Nature Medicine, researchers looked at data on patients with obesity and cirrhosis related to an advanced form of fatty liver disease called metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis, or MASH. Obesity is one of the major risk factors for MASH. At the 15-year mark, patients who had bariatric surgery were 72 percent less likely to have developed major complications like liver cancer than similar patients who didn’t have surgery....
